List of Great People in Civ V please?

Really, every non-Greek Great Person in the game is a Great Barbarian. :p Just not in the pejorative sense. Well, sorta.
 
all stupidity aside, great barbarians actually sounds like a fun and strategically plausible idea!

imagine your trying to kill barbarians but all of a sudden they basically have a great general boosting them. this definitely would be historical as certain "barbarian" invasions, specially the succesful ones, were so devastating due to their great leadership. attila, the kings of the normans (forget his name?), genghis khan while mongolia is not in the game, timur and a whole lot of historical figures you guys probably know a lot more about than me. strategically speaking, great barbarians would just be great generals and perhaps to make it more balanced, they would only appear as part of a request/mission for city states.

A city state asks for your help in repelling an invasion, an invasion spearheaded by a great barbarian. you get big monetary rewards for destroying the invasion and an even bigger diplomatic reward for defeating the great barbarian. Of course, if you fail to attack the great barbarian may be able to overrun the afflicted city state, in which case he would gain more strength (or maybe none at all) and focus his attention on attacking other civs (perhaps specifically the civ that city-state asked for help) picking up other barbarians from other encampments along the way.

now that i think about it, it may not be thaaaattt strategically balanced, but it would be a fun thing to see be available with an option like "raging barbs"

city states asking for help agaisnt barbarian invasions is quite common. Although the Byzantine empire isn't exactly a city state, the seljuk turks were really destroying them which prompted the first crusade. the greek city states in anatolia asked for help agaisnt the persian armies (okay persians and seljuks are not barbarians but the concept is more or less the same)

someone with super historical knowledge help me out here.
 
Jewman said:
all stupidity aside, great barbarians actually sounds like a fun and strategically plausible idea!

imagine your trying to kill barbarians but all of a sudden they basically have a great general boosting them. this definitely would be historical as certain "barbarian" invasions, specially the succesful ones, were so devastating due to their great leadership. attila, the kings of the normans (forget his name?), genghis khan while mongolia is not in the game, timur and a whole lot of historical figures you guys probably know a lot more about than me. strategically speaking, great barbarians would just be great generals and perhaps to make it more balanced, they would only appear as part of a request/mission for city states.

A city state asks for your help in repelling an invasion, an invasion spearheaded by a great barbarian. you get big monetary rewards for destroying the invasion and an even bigger diplomatic reward for defeating the great barbarian. Of course, if you fail to attack the great barbarian may be able to overrun the afflicted city state, in which case he would gain more strength (or maybe none at all) and focus his attention on attacking other civs (perhaps specifically the civ that city-state asked for help) picking up other barbarians from other encampments along the way.

now that i think about it, it may not be thaaaattt strategically balanced, but it would be a fun thing to see be available with an option like "raging barbs"

city states asking for help agaisnt barbarian invasions is quite common. Although the Byzantine empire isn't exactly a city state, the seljuk turks were really destroying them which prompted the first crusade. the greek city states in anatolia asked for help agaisnt the persian armies (okay persians and seljuks are not barbarians but the concept is more or less the same)

someone with super historical knowledge help me out here.
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That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea. It'd be cool if the barbarian tribes would spawn a great barbarian general every once in awhile and go on a great invasion.

It'd be really fun to protect city states from these great invasions.

Attila the Hun would be a great fit for a Great Barbarian along with Alaric the Visigoth, who sacked Rome in 410 AD.
 
I love the idea of great barbarians!

They could be great general units like Jewman said, or they could even just be a UU for the barbarians. This way there could be GB naval vessels as well.

This would really make the German and Ottoman UA's more unique, because they could capture a special unit no one else can.
 
Actually, there is a Barbarian UU: the Brute (replaces Warrior). I don't think we know how it differs from normal Warriors, but it's there. No naval UU though, although I can see that being pretty nifty. Maybe a Privateer-esque ship that the Ottomans could capture and then pretend was still a Barbarian.
 
I should have specified, but when I meant great barbarian UU I meant something with a unique ability, extra attack/defense, etc.. Not just a different name, with the same stats like the brute was announced to be.

Edit: I like the GB naval idea. That would be incredibly powerful for the Ottomans, and would fit perfect with their UA Barbary Pirates
 
Lyoncet said:
Actually, there is a Barbarian UU: the Brute (replaces Warrior). I don't think we know how it differs from normal Warriors, but it's there. No naval UU though, although I can see that being pretty nifty. Maybe a Privateer-esque ship that the Ottomans could capture and then pretend was still a Barbarian.
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thats actually pretty awesome, because in return for their having a sorta sucky UA which is only useful sometimes and then again not even that useful, the ottomans would get a chance to capture a "privateer" unit which could more or less be a 3rd UU for them. Considering the spahi and janissary would come around the same era as a privateer unit, they would pretty much be unstoppable in the renaissance. If such a privateer unit where to exists that is.

it actually sounds a little bit balanced, they trade having a good ability for having the ability to sometimes get a 3rd UU. that would definitely add quite a bit of spice to the game.
 
What a good thread. Haven't laughed so much in ages although how the OP missed Lord Cardigan off the list of Great generals is beyond me.
 
Give me Great Artists Axl Rose and Slash... haha you could have a lot of fun with a Hollywood mod, good points all around. I have a feeling this was the general pull the OP wanted from the thread :). I want to see Great General Hulk Hogan, or Andre the Giant. Grant nearby troops the power of Hulkamania and the ability to choke slam or do powerful bear hug attacks.
 
I should've put in these Great Artists:

John Williams (If that name doesn't ring a bell, would one of his compositions?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8)

Alexander Courage
Jerry Goldsmith (This of theirs will have to ring a bell for sure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjbUu5MaEEg&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Xc0qvV_xg&feature=related)

Weird al-Yankovic

Snoop Dogg

Dr. Dre

J. Pachelbel

And lastly, maybe also Stephen Quire and Archibald Inho? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7WrM-zO1k)
 
I'm just surprised we haven't seen a John Adams Great Artist yet, since apparently whoever designed the soundtrack for CIV though that he's the only artist who deserves to be the sole representative of an entire genre of music.
 
This has got to be a joke. The following certainly do not deserve to be called Great Artists:

Spoiler :
egaonogenki said:
Jennifer Lopez
Britney Spears
(many more contemporary pop artists, young and old alike)
Justin Bieber (That could be debatable, and he should only be creatable after the 2020 in-game year, don't you think?)
Miley Cyrus
Lindsey Lohan
Mary-Kate Olsen
Ashley Olsen
Lucas Cruikshank (About as debatable as Bieber...)
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Great Generals:

Norman Schwarzkopf
David Petraeus
Donald Rumsfeld
Robert Gates
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Also, how can anyone think these should be in the game as Great Generals, while Vicomte de Turenne, the Duke of Marlborough and Maurice de Saxe
aren't? (Not to mention the many great Japanese and Chinese generals). Even I they have to add more American generals for some reason, wouldn't it be better if they added Stonewall Jackson?
 
Marshall Thomas said:
The Chuck Norris great person possibilities are limitless....

Would he be all types of great persons in one?

...or better still: a Chuck Norris Victory Condition (first civ to produce Chuck Norris wins). It'd be like a Domination and Cultural victory combined!
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I love this idea, you take one of each of the GP's in the game and combine them with a GDR, this turns it into a Giant Chuck Norris (GNC) that actually has the kung fu punch.
 
Dermo said:
I love this idea, you take one of each of the GP's in the game and combine them with a GDR, this turns it into a Giant Chuck Norris (GNC) that actually has the kung fu punch.
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I'd add the Secret-unit to the mix.
 
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